Cathy Moran, Esq.

Head of Moran Law Group

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Biography

Cathy Moran has headed her own small firm Moran Law Group in Redwood City, California, for nearly 30 years. Family law and tax issues as they play out in bankruptcy are areas of particular interest to Cathy.

Articles by Cathy Moran, Esq.

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December 3, 2023
“We’re confronted with a dilemma: if we pay practitioners fairly,we price ourselves out of reach of the very individuals we hope to help.”
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November 19, 2023
On Thanksgiving, I’m mindful of how precious the American approach to insolvency is.
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October 8, 2023
“Do you have clients in an active Chapter 13 plan paying back mortgage payments that were delinquent when the case was filed?” October 16th is the deadline to file extended income tax returns.
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October 1, 2023
In a perfectly executed world, clients who do business via an entity like a corporation or LLC would arrive with their business lives neatly separated from their personal lives. However, that’s not the world I practice in. It’s probably not yours, either. Instead, I have to sleuth out the facts, and compare them to the individual’s version. I see prospective...
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September 17, 2023
What do you do when you don’t know the answer to a bankruptcy client’s questions? After all, you’re a bankruptcy lawyer.
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“We have observed consumers who seem to be focused principally on their credit scores, . . . rather than focusing on . . . a more critical immediate focus on their balance sheets . . .”
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August 27, 2023
The bankruptcy means test, designed to keep people out of bankruptcy, has a fatal weakness. . . . it’s health care.
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August 20, 2023
What are the consequences of a secured lender’s failure to comply with R. 3002.1 in a prior case when the debtor files again? Significant, it seems. . . . since their attorney said he “didn’t see the need” to do so. [Can you guess, now, how this comes out?]
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August 6, 2023
I was the third attorney on this lien avoidance matter. Instead of it being “third time’s the charm”, it came close to being “three strikes and you’re out.” All because of FRBP 7041. This was the set up: debtor’s original counsel filed a number of lien avoidance actions, including the one against a landlord with a large default judgment. The...
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